Anonymous
Post 07/15/2012 16:52     Subject: Re:Penn State is digusting
Anonymous wrote:You hire someone from Pennn State, you get a vomiting drunk hunter who cannot read.


Hyperbole much? Let's get real; PSU isn't an ivy league school, but it's a better than average flagship state school. I've worked with numerous people from PSU, many of which are extremely good at their job. And before you get crazy and call me a PSU apologist, I went to WVU and UVA.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2012 15:20     Subject: Penn State is digusting
Anonymous wrote:A normal alumni base would be clamoring to shut down the football program. They are not normal.


Question for the board: I didn't apply to, interview with, or go to PSU. Can anybody advise why the PSU alumni officials seem to have been silent about this? Same for the trustees? Just seems bizarre.

Anonymous
Post 07/15/2012 12:00     Subject: Penn State is digusting
Anonymous wrote:A normal alumni base would be clamoring to shut down the football program. They are not normal.


Normal for a school with its only claim to fame being the football program.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2012 11:58     Subject: Penn State is digusting
A normal alumni base would be clamoring to shut down the football program. They are not normal.
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2012 11:08     Subject: Re:Penn State is digusting
Anonymous wrote:A preposterous dump and an academic fraud for many years. They produce "engineers" who cannot pass the licensing exams, they took over a tier-3 proprietary law school and promptly built a second campus and doubled the school's size and now a majority (!) are graduating unemployed. They are a football team funded as if they were a university. Let's bring this thread to a close. You hire someone from Pennn State, you get a vomiting drunk hunter who cannot read.


Isn't their computer science department unaccredited also?
Anonymous
Post 07/15/2012 10:16     Subject: Re:Penn State is digusting
A preposterous dump and an academic fraud for many years. They produce "engineers" who cannot pass the licensing exams, they took over a tier-3 proprietary law school and promptly built a second campus and doubled the school's size and now a majority (!) are graduating unemployed. They are a football team funded as if they were a university. Let's bring this thread to a close. You hire someone from Pennn State, you get a vomiting drunk hunter who cannot read.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2012 13:05     Subject: Re:Penn State is digusting
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
it's not that. It's the taint. You put that name on your resume, it'll ring a bell. The wrong one.
Always was a bit sketchy even before that, widely known for its alcohol culture.


Many great people there. Your comment sounds like the stuff WVU grads with a chip on their shoulder post. Or someone from MD who can't get over how dumpy College Park is.


College Park is a dump, State College more like Blacksburg Va. - out in the boonies.
. Umd is ranked much higher than ped state and vt . I'd rather live in cp than those crystal meth vortexes of losers.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2012 13:03     Subject: Penn State is digusting
Umd has one of the highest ranked physics dept in the country. Higher than johns hopkins.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2012 12:37     Subject: Penn State is digusting
Anonymous wrote:He isn't--heading into senior year and was looking at top physics program. Plus, we have a friend with similar stats and got a lots of scholarshiop $.

Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My son is rising senior and was looking at Penn State for physics program: 2280 SAT, GPA=4.12, AP Scholar.

As a parent, I told my son that PS is crossed this off the list after reading FBI Director Freeh's report.


Why is he at Penn State with those stats?


Is it a highly rated program? Had no idea. What about Johns Hopkins, Princeton or Cal Tech. What does he want to do with a physics degree? Although a difficult major, you need to go the PhD route to hope to make a decent living. And like many other fields, there just aren't enough academic or research positions to go around. I don't think a Penn State degree will help any when it comes to the competition for those coveted jobs.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2012 12:36     Subject: Re:Penn State is digusting
Anonymous wrote:My husband is a former player, early 90s. Joe was a huge mentor of his and to watch the situation unfold has been really devastating to him. He has stated that he feels he now has to be ashamed of what use to be remembered as one of the best periods of his life. Sandusky was known as a creep and some people knew more but alot of people didn't. My husband spent his entire childhood working towards playing Penn State football and spent alot of his early adulthood participating in many alumni programs, he feels as apart of his family has been destroyed forever. He went on to play professional for a few short years but his professional career ment nothing to him compared to his Penn State days. However, we both realize it does not even compare to the pain and devastation Sandusky has caused so many and we are both thoroughly disgusted with him and how Penn State reacted. Ps: I went to a small college close to Penn and always felt sad I wasn't an alumni, not anymore!


I'm sorry for the feelings your husband's now experiencing. I can appreciate that this is all hard to take. I'm curious as to how/why Sandusky was viewed as a creep? Do you mean that even those who weren't aware of his terrible behaviors with young boys thought of him as creepy?
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2012 12:25     Subject: Re:Penn State is digusting
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
it's not that. It's the taint. You put that name on your resume, it'll ring a bell. The wrong one.
Always was a bit sketchy even before that, widely known for its alcohol culture.


Many great people there. Your comment sounds like the stuff WVU grads with a chip on their shoulder post. Or someone from MD who can't get over how dumpy College Park is.


College Park is a dump, State College more like Blacksburg Va. - out in the boonies.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2012 12:02     Subject: Re:Penn State is digusting
Anonymous wrote:
it's not that. It's the taint. You put that name on your resume, it'll ring a bell. The wrong one.
Always was a bit sketchy even before that, widely known for its alcohol culture.


Many great people there. Your comment sounds like the stuff WVU grads with a chip on their shoulder post. Or someone from MD who can't get over how dumpy College Park is.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2012 11:40     Subject: Penn State is digusting
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:My son is rising senior and was looking at Penn State for physics program: 2280 SAT, GPA=4.12, AP Scholar.

As a parent, I told my son that PS is crossed this off the list after reading FBI Director Freeh's report.


Why is he at Penn State with those stats?[/quote]

Maybe he likes being out in the cow fields at a uni best known for its football team and hard partying?
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2012 11:37     Subject: Re:Penn State is digusting
Anonymous wrote:Wonder if all the people crossing Penn State off their lists due to the corruption are also getting ready to move out of DC as well. Plenty of pervasive corruption in DC government. Or maybe they pick and choose their high horses.


it's not that. It's the taint. You put that name on your resume, it'll ring a bell. The wrong one.
Always was a bit sketchy even before that, widely known for its alcohol culture.
Anonymous
Post 07/14/2012 09:40     Subject: Penn State is digusting
"Humane" Spanier got a job with Homeland security. Who hired him? Why isn't he fired since he couldn't even get a cop to campus for an [alledged at the time ] pedophile?

The HUMANE thing to do now is for the federal govt to fire his ass and fire whoever hired him. Take away all their pensions -no more money spent by taxcpayers in PA and the USA.

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/04/post_340.html

Is the Lasch building reno just a ploy to renovate? Get more cash?

What about Gov Corbett ??? Get rid of that clown too. I grew up in PA and still have family there.